Yearly Archives: 2008

(Pittsfield, Mass.) – Over 500 vintage antique clocks – many of them very rare, museum-quality pieces, to include an E. Howard astronomical #61 floor regulator – will be sold in a two-session sale slated for Saturday, Nov. 8, by Fontaine’s Auction Gallery, beginning at 10 a.m. The sale will be held at [Read More]

One of the finest bottles of Glencadam single malt whisky – discovered behind a trap door in a house in Washington State, USA – is expected to fetch £3,000-5,000 at Bonhams first sale dedicated to the spirit. The auction will be held on 12 November in Edinburgh, Scotland. Martin Green, Bonhams’ newly [Read More]

E.H. Shepard is one of children’s literature’s most famous illustrators and Bonhams is delighted to present for sale a superb selection of his works on 4 November – direct from his family. The auction in New Bond Street will include an original drawing of Winnie-the-Pooh (£15,000-20,000) and a first sketch for Wind [Read More]

No one at Rago’s had ever seen anything like it before. An Arts & Crafts style table lamp, but only sort of – heavy and tall, with a finial of a jumping horse, medallions with the initials NHS suspended around the circumference of the bronze shade and a copper band mounted to [Read More]

The Kern River Golden Trout Resort in Kernville, Calif., sold for $1.26 million Saturday, Oct. 18, in a two-hour auction that pitted buyers seeking to buy the entire resort against others who only sought to purchase part of it. Thirteen bidders gathered on the deck of the 24-room Golden Trout Resort for [Read More]

LONDON – Inspiring, informing and extending aesthetic horizons, Christie’s Photographs Department continues its unprecedented programme Distinctively. This carefully curated series features photo-based works from specific regions which are sold-out and no longer available on the primary market, by established and emerging artists. Following the success of Distinctively Japanese at Christie’s in May [Read More]

CLEVELAND, OHIO – Gray’s Auctioneers will conduct an Oct. 25 Americana, Fine Arts and Antiques auction at its Cleveland gallery. Notable items include an 1885 cast-bronze bell by Meneely and Co., estimated at $3,000-5,000, a circa-1776 Queen Anne figured maple fan-carved flat-top highboy estimated at $5,000-7,000, and a very large selection of [Read More]

Ethnographic Sale, Monday 27th October 2008, Adelaide There has been another remarkable find of great historical importance in South Australia. Following the exciting discovery in 2001 of the Burke and Wills breastplate awarded to the Cooper’s Creek aborigines, two Adelaide brothers recalled that their Great Uncle had bequeathed them an identical breastplate [Read More]

Belcourt Castle, one of the great estates in Newport, Rhode Island, is clearing out the stables, attics, and grounds in order to refine their many collections and to prepare for property and program improvements. For more than a month, LLD Specialty Sales has been sorting through a veritable mountain of treats and [Read More]

Painted birds, fanciful tulips, colorful hearts, vibrant parrots, fans, stars, etc., are all decorative elements of American painted furniture and folk art, and are all incorporated into many of the pieces to be offered in the collection of Richard and Rosemarie Machmer. Pook & Pook, Inc., will sell this outstanding lifelong gathering [Read More]

On Friday and Saturday, October 24 and 25, Wilson’s will be selling the Estate of Alexandra Mellon Grange Hawkins. The sale will be held on the premises of the beautiful 106-acre Main Line estate at 1035 Sugartown Road, Berwyn, Pennsylvania. “This auction has all the ingredients to be one of the best [Read More]

The lifelong collection of Mr. Donald H. Berkebile of Mercersburg, Pennsylvania, well-known author and curator at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., will be sold at auction by Hurley Auctions on October 29, 30, and 31. Mr. Berkebile died at the age of 81 in the summer of this year. Donald H. [Read More]

Sotheby’s London Frieze Week Evening Sale of Contemporary Art realised £22,008,250/$38,135,896 (pre-sale estimate: £30,620,000-42,750,000), representing the second highest total achieved for an October sale of Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s. The sale which saw two new artist records established – those for El Anatsui and Matthias Weischer – was 72.6% sold by lot [Read More]

Sotheby’s has led the field in Greek Art auctions since its inaugural sale in 2001 and its sale in April this year realised a record-breaking £9.5 million, a figure which still represents the highest total for any sale of Greek Art at any auction house. Its forthcoming sale, on Tuesday, November 11, [Read More]

When the last 36 pieces of iconic artwork from the early years of MAD Magazine go on the block on Nov. 14, as part of Heritage Auction Galleries’ November 2008 Vintage Comics & Comic Art Signature Auction, it will celebrate a defining moment in American pop culture. Fresh on the heels of [Read More]

A rare 1946 Patek Philippe Reference 1518 watch, a masterpiece of craftsmanship, once belonging to legendary sports entrepreneur Arthur M. Wirtz, to be sold at a Heritage Auction on Dec. 9. Reference 1518 is an important and extremely Rare 18k Gold Wristwatch with Chronograph, Perpetual Calendar, Moon Phases, Register, Tachometer and 18k [Read More]

Officials of Kimball International are hoping that their upcoming auction of 27,212 acres – primarily timberland – in Indiana and Kentucky will attract investors who have sold equities and begun looking for a less volatile long-term haven for their money. “After weeks of heavy selling in all sectors, there’s a lot of [Read More]

After operating from a converted barn complex for much of the last fifteen years, H&H Ltd has recently moved premises. Aside from a suite of freshly refurbished offices, imposing boardroom and photographic studio, the two-storey building boasts some 20,000sqft of storage space. Located just five minutes from the M6 motorway (Junction 20), [Read More]